Pan or stove-cover lifter



(No Model.)

T. S. HASKELL.

PAN 0R STOVE GOVEB. LIFTER.

Patentd June 12,1883.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

THOMAS S. HASKELL, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

PAN OR STOVE-COVER LIFTER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 279,153, dated June 12,1883,

Application filed November 24, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, THoMAs S. HASKELL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pan orStove-Cover Lifters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a combined dish and stove-coverv lifter, andis fully set forth in the accompanying drawings and followingdescription.

In the drawings, Figure I is a top view of my improved tool. Fig. II isa side elevation of the invention employed as a pan or dish lifter. Fig.III is the same view of the device used as a stove-cover lifter, andFig. IV is a detail plan view of one jaw.

B is a jaw prolonged from the handleH and rigid therewith, andprovidedupon its jawsurface with transverse grooves or corrugations 1). Hingedupon the piece B at c is the opposing jaw-piece D, having upon itsjawsurface the transverse groove (1. The part D is extended upon theother side of the hinge c to form a hook, C, which, extending below thejaw B, terminates in an end, h, adapted to catch in the hook-opening ofa stove-cover, and sufficiently in advance of the jaws B D toapproximate, as seen in Fig. II, to the inclined side of a pan, WV,grasped between said jaws. Also, prolonged from the jaw D, to be inconvenient reach of the hand grasping the handle H, is the thumb-pieceI.

. matically cause the jaws to hold with a force proportionate to theweight of the pan, so that the pan, no matter what its weight, is by thehook. G and jaws D B firmly held, to be conveniently moved. One of thegrooves b in jaw B and groove (1 in jaw D adapt themselves to the wirerim of a certain class of pan, as shown in the drawings, and thesegrooves in the opposing jaw-surfaces sufficiently roughen them for aneffective grip upon all classes of cooking utensils. To grasp a pan, thejaws are opened by means of the thumb-piece I, and when the rim isbetween said jaws the handle H is slightly lowered to bring the hook endh against the side of the pan to complete the adjustment of the tool foruse.

When the hook C is used to lift astove-cover, the jaw D, bearing againstjaw B, causes the hook O to be rigid with handle H.

Now, having described my invention, what I claim is 1. Thewithin-described dish or pan lifter, consisting of the handle H andrigid jaw B, in combination with the jaw D, hinged thereto to swingabove jaw B, and provided with the extended bearing-arm C to swing belowthe same, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with the j awsB D and arms 0, arranged and operatingas shown and described, of the corresponding transverse grooves, d andb, in the j aw-surfaces, adapting the jaws to inclose a wire rim, as setforth.

3. The combination, with the handle H, jaw B, and arm 0, constructed andarranged substantially as shown, of the end 71, adapted to form astove-cover hook.

It. F. HYDE, WM. H. CHAPIN.

